Issue - meetings

The actions agreed at the informal meeting were:

·        Funding of other leisure activities such as dance and music for children and young people that do not want to go to leisure centres. This is in addition to still making available the Leisure pass for  children and young people  in care  that do still want to go to Leisure Centres.

• Publicity about the increase of the Leaving Care Grant.
• Ensuring Aspire members email accounts are accessible.
• Providing an easier process for Aspire to pay for their events i.e. a purchase card for Sandjea and Faith to use.
• Looking at the IT provision for LAC.

·        In relation to Personal Education Plans, including music lessons. The Virtual School has a good music offer and it was about linking up this information when completing the PEP .Agreed to check, if there was a post 16 music offer available with Peter Desmond. There could also be information made available on how Children and young people in care can access music lessons from a young age up to the age of 18. [Virtual School Head]

•  Aspire and CPAC were  advised that from the ages of 16-19, there was a bursary available to young people in care to access to support education. A joint contribution was available for music lessons and this should be made clearer to young people and their carers. Chris Chalmers/Virtual School Head]
•  CPAC suggested that it would be useful to provide a summary of all the support funding a young person in care can apply for, after the age of 16. It would be good to understand how young people in care are told about the availability of this funding and how many are accessing this at the moment. [Chris Chalmers]